Technical Project Manager

GoHealth is seeking a Technical Project Manager to join our Performance Data Team. This individual will play a critical role in helping our data team drive projects to completion. The project manager will be responsible for ensure the team follows agile concepts, team members are advancing according to plan, and JIRA best practices are being followed. We seek candidates with a demonstrated background of project management, ability to thrive in a constantly changing environment, and an intellectual curiosity to learn about our business.

GoHealth employs an agile methodology and fully embraces the fundamentals of continuous delivery, self-organizing teams, just-in-time requirements, only as much documentation as truly needed, and processes that make sense for the organization (not just for the sake of process).

Responsibilities:

Utilize daily team meetings and other techniques to identify impediments and find ways to remove them

Support the Data team by helping to serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical resources

Serve as a cross-functional team project manager to facilitate execution of key initiatives. A project manager must be able to influence and motivate employees from multiple teams to drive execution against our plans.

Organize our epics and user stories in JIRA as well as helping the team remove impediments that may otherwise slow down our velocity

Coach the team to follow the processes and identify ways to improve the processes

Skills and Experience:

2+ years of experience leading technical or analytical teams in an agile environment, specifically scrum, is preferred

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Math, Statistics, Social Sciences or another field with a quantitative component

Ability to drive multiple complex projects to the finish line simultaneously

Strong analytical skills and a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into requirements for operations and report delivery.

Assertiveness – must be able to ensure agile concepts and principles are adhered to by providing a voice of reason and authority.

Understanding basic fundamentals of iterative development, with a focus on minimum viable product.

Experience with Atlassian suite of tools (Jira, Confluence) preferred

Ability to acquire respect from team while demonstrating a willingness to “get hands dirty” when needed to get the job done